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The joint investigation team of prosecutors and police, currently probing the ballot shortage incident, is accelerating efforts to reconstruct the events of election day. Authorities have conducted raids on 12 officials from the Seoul and Songpa-gu Election Commissions, seizing items including their mobile phones.
Reporter Jeon Yeon-nam has the story.
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The joint investigation team looking into the ballot shortage has launched compulsory investigations into officials from the National Election Commission (NEC).
The joint team announced that it conducted raids on a total of 12 individuals, including three officials from the Seoul Metropolitan Election Commission and nine from the Songpa-gu Election Commission.
This comes 13 days after the team raided the NEC headquarters and the Seoul Election Commission on June 11 to secure internal documents, including voting records.
The targets of the raids were working-level staff responsible for managing voting in Seoul, including those at the Jamsil 7-dong polling station who were in communication with poll workers on election day. All of them are currently considered witnesses.
The joint team seized mobile phones and other items from the offices of these 12 individuals.
Once the analysis of the seized materials is complete, the joint team plans to summon them one by one to determine when they became aware of the ballot shortage, how it was reported within the election commission, and what instructions were given.
The joint team is also analyzing materials and findings submitted by the NEC's "Fact-Finding Committee on the Ballot Shortage Incident."
Meanwhile, police investigations are also continuing regarding the "vote counting station blockade protest" that took place at the Olympic Park Handball Gymnasium.
Police have identified a woman in her 30s who, while draped in a U.S. flag, blocked employees of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee from entering their office inside the gymnasium for about two hours on June 16, and have summoned her for questioning.
[Are you okay? What was your intention in blocking the entrance? (No response)]
The police are working to identify others who obstructed the entry of sports organization staff into their offices and are investigating them on charges of obstruction of business.
(Video Editing: Kim Yoon-sung)
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